You clearly don’t know many birders. Many of my colleagues swear like longshoremen and drink like fish.
Truth be told, I often do myself.
I used to work in building services fitting pipework etc.
Can’t remember them all now but there were **nipples **and **black nipples **(black malleable steel) and also a machine for putting threads on plain ended pipework.
affectionately known as the Ridgid Screwing Machine.
Somewhat-related anecdote - there was some story on tv yesterday about birds coming back for spring, and they showed a red-header woodpecker. Somehow it came out of my mouth as “peckerheaded peckerhead” - I cracked myself up. 
Thanks for the clarification.
“Animal Husbandry” (thanks to T. Pratchitt)
You drink deep of the cup of life, then. More fuckin’ power to ya. 
No, he’s right about “funk.” I mean, it could be any insistent smell, but it can also be particularly used to mean that one.
–Cliffy